Call it fate. Andrew Satake Blauvelt and his husband, Scott Winter, had been living in a rental in Farmington Hills and were about to purchase a run-down mid-century modern house in Grosse Pointe when a listing for an early 1960s ranch in Southfield appeared on Curbed Detroit.

Southfield, Blauvelt explains, was developed in the 1950s and 1960s, with a lot of architecturally significant mid-century modern residences, including “a lot of really cool houses on the street,” where the listing was. Backing up to the Rouge River and a nature preserve, the distinctive contemporary also featured four bedrooms, three baths and 2,600 square feet. “But I called the realtor and it already had an offer,” Blauvelt explains.

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